There have been a number of odd player exits from the SPL recently suggesting that the salaries of a deep fried mars bar and a hand joke from sweaty Betty are not keeping pace with the might of Iran or English non league football.

Scunny lost 5-0 at home to Joey Barton's Fleetwood the other night, having now seen the goals now it's pretty clear Cameron Borthwick Jackson had an opportunity to prevent all 5 of them. For at least 2 he'd completely lost his man, for another 2 he was simply weak in the challenge, the other he probably did as well as you could expect but that's not saying much - the shit bastard.

Agreed. In fact I'd like to have the Bremner statue replaced with one of Barton, phone in hand, crafting a particularly devastating tweet extrapolated from a misinterpretation of a Morrissey lyric. We could also dig up the recently dedicated stones around the statue and have the inscriptions replaced by all of his incredibly erudite tweets.

Barton will end up at a bigger club, it just as well be ours. We only have to cast our mind back to before Bielsa took the job. We were linked with the likes of Bruce (many wanted that cunt here) McClaren, McCarthy, plus many other has-beens.

As soon as Bielsa walks we should put straight in for him before the likes of Newcastle snap him up. The contacts he has in the game would be worth an extra half dozen points for us alone.A young manager with ambition is what's needed here once the king leaves.

Frankly I don't think we should risk waiting for Bielsa to leave. He's done alright but we dropped two points against Swansea and presumably the rot will start to set in soon. We should pay him off and bring Barton in now. Has he definitely retired as a player?

Tommy wrote:Frankly I don't think we should risk waiting for Bielsa to leave. He's done alright but we dropped two points against Swansea and presumably the rot will start to set in soon. We should pay him off and bring Barton in now. Has he definitely retired as a player?

I think because Barton is still quite inexperienced it’d be ideal if he came with the Hock as his second in command just to give him that bit of support.